5 European Countries Have Built Border Fences to Keep Out Refugees

Over the last few weeks , hastily erected razor - telegram fence have made headline as they ’ve come along along Hungary ’s border to keep out refugees fleeing war - shoot nation . But this is actually not a novel phenomenon : At least four more European state have built fences in the last few years in a deepen effort to keep immigrants out .

ANew York Times infographicshows how the route that many refugees antecedently used to travel from the Middle East into Western Europe has been disrupted by governments break up down on in-migration . While some of the measures to discourage refugee are morepolicy - link — some land are just increase pes patrols or performing more frequent passport checks — many borders have reverted to old - fashioned forcible barriers . These fencing are make life even more dangerous for refugee by forcing them to walk longer aloofness over treacherous terrain or travel by boat instead .

Turkey , Greece , Bulgaria , Macedonia , and now Hungary have all build their version of the anti - immigrant fence along parts of their boundary line . Some are flimsy enough to be easily trample , others are intricate tangles of briery telegram . In nitty-gritty , countries are building existent spell of infrastructure to stop the period of multitude cover borders .

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We ’re watch Europe vary before our eye in means that we have n’t project since the remainder of the Cold War .

Greece

Migrants wait behind a fence to pass along the borders from the northerly Greek town of Idomeni , to southern Macedonia ( AP Photo / Giannis Papanikos )

Bulgaria

Border policeman support at the Bulgarian - Turkish border near the hamlet of Golyam Dervent , Thursday , Nov. 28 2013 . ( AP Photo / Valentina Petrova )